Found 3 items, similar to Traduce.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: traduce
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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: traduce
traduce
v : speak unfavorably about;
“She badmouthes her husband
everywhere” [syn:
badmouth,
malign,
drag through the mud
]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Traduce
Traduce
\Tra*duce"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Traduced; p. pr. &
vb. n.
Traducing.] [L. traducere, traductum, to lead
across, lead along, exhibit as a spectacle, disgrace,
transfer, derive; trans across, over + ducere to lead: cf. F.
traduire to transfer, translate, arraign, fr. L. traducere.
See
Duke.]
1. To transfer; to transmit; to hand down; as, to traduce
mental qualities to one's descendants. [Obs.] --Glanvill.
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2. To translate from one language to another; as, to traduce
and compose works. [Obs.] --Golden Boke.
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3. To increase or distribute by propagation. [Obs.]
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From these only the race of perfect animals were
propagated and traduced over the earth. --Sir M.
Hale.
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4. To draw away; to seduce. [Obs.]
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I can forget the weakness
Of the traduced soldiers. --Beau. & Fl.
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5. To represent; to exhibit; to display; to expose; to make
an example of. [Obs.] --Bacon.
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6. To expose to contempt or shame; to represent as blamable;
to calumniate; to vilify; to defame.
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The best stratagem that Satan hath . . . is by
traducing the form and manner of them [prayers], to
bring them into contempt. --Hooker.
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He had the baseness . . . to traduce me in libel.
--Dryden.
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Syn: To calumniate; vilify; defame; disparage; detract;
depreciate; decry; slander.
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